{"id":442,"date":"2012-02-06T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=442"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:48:07","slug":"cast-of-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2012\/02\/06\/cast-of-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast of Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Actors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Girja Shakar Bajpai- Indian Agent-General to Washington<\/li>\n<li>Winston Churchill- British Prime Minister<\/li>\n<li>Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi<\/li>\n<li>Lord Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood)- British ambassador to the United States<\/li>\n<li>K.A.D. Naoroji- Deputy Director of the Government of India Supply Mission- possible actor in Pearson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-september-1944-pearson-leak-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jawaharlal Nehru<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/17\/american-history-in-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit<\/a>&#8211; Sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and future ambassador to the United States, president of the UN General Assembly<\/li>\n<li>Major Altaf Qadir- Third Secretary of the Indian Agent-General; possible actor in Pearson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-september-1944-pearson-leak-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Obaidur Rahman- Press Officer of the High Commission; possible actor in Pearson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-september-1944-pearson-leak-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Journalists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/03\/louis-fischer-1896-1970\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Fischer<\/a>&#8211; Gandhi biographer<\/li>\n<li>Chamal Lal- <em>Hindustan Times<\/em>\u00a0correspondent; possible actor in Pearson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-september-1944-pearson-leak-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/21\/drew-pearson-1897-1969\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Pearson<\/a>&#8211; <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0political columnist<\/li>\n<li>Richard Walsh- Editor of <em>Asia<\/em>, head of John Day Publishing Co.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lobbyists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pearl Buck- Author and honorary president of the League in 1944<\/li>\n<li>K.C. Mahendra- Indian businessman, owner of a Bombay import-export company; owner of Castle Rock, a mansion on the Potomac in Falls Church, VA, and a regular Lobby event location; possible actor in the Pearson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-september-1944-pearson-leak-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Anup Singh- First editor of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/category\/primary-sources\/india-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">India Today<\/a><\/em>, founding member of the National Commission for India&#8217;s Independence; claims involvement in Pearson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/august-september-1944-pearson-leak-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">leak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/18\/sirdat-jagjit-j-j-singh-1897-1976\/\" target=\"_blank\">J.J. Singh<\/a>&#8211; President of the India League of America<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/03\/walter-white-1893-1955\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter White<\/a>&#8211; Executive secretary of the NAACP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politicians:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Emanuel Celler (1888-1981)\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2012\/01\/11\/emanuel-celler-1888-1981\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emanuel Celler<\/a>&#8211; Representative for New York<\/li>\n<li>Happy Chandler- Democrat Senator from Kentucky<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/20\/clare-boothe-luce-1903-1987\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clare Boothe Luce<\/a>&#8211; Republican Representative for Connecticut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>State:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adolph A. Berle- Assistant Secretary of State of Latin American affairs<\/li>\n<li>Robert Crane-\u00a0junior officer at the India Desk in the Division of Cultural Relations<\/li>\n<li>Cordell Hull- Secretary of State<\/li>\n<li>Colonel Louis Johnson-\u00a0Personal representative to India for Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>Wallace Murray- Chief of the Division of Near East Affairs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/03\/william-phillips-1878-1968\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Phillips<\/a>&#8211; Personal representative to India for Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>Sumner Welles- Assistant Secretary of State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporting Characters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/20\/clark-getts-1893\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clark Getts<\/a>&#8211; Lecture production bureau owner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/vol-2-no-2-may-1941\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horace Poleman<\/a>&#8211; Head of India Southeast Asia Section of the Library of Congress<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/10\/09\/wendell-willkie-radio-address-october-26-1942\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wendell Willkie<\/a>&#8211; 1940 Republican presidential candidate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/10\/Cast-of-Characters.xlsx\">Spreadsheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Actors: Girja Shakar Bajpai- Indian Agent-General to Washington Winston Churchill- British Prime Minister Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Lord Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood)- British ambassador to the United States K.A.D. 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